[Click] Make of testie.1 fails with permission denied

Eddie Kohler kohler at cs.ucla.edu
Tue Jul 17 20:57:23 EDT 2007


Puneet,

Thanks for this comment.  Click shouldn't be building things in the source 
directories by default, and now it doesn't (I hope!).

Eddie


Puneet Sood wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When building the documentation, the pod2man command to build testie.1
> fails with a permission denied error.
> 
> $(srcdir)/testie.1: $(top_srcdir)/test/testie
> 	pod2man -d '' -c '' $(top_srcdir)/test/testie > $(srcdir)/testie.1
> 
> I believe this happens because I have the code in local version
> control and the timestamp on testie.1 is older than testie. However
> testie.1 has read-only permission so pod2man fails to write the file.
> I know this is specific to me using version control but is there a
> general way for me to avoid this problem? (I could add a command to
> checkout the file just before the pod2man command).
> 
> Thanks,
> Puneet
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